Privilege escalation in Nexter Extension for WordPress
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.
Summary
The Nexter Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable in all versions up to and including 4.7.11 (CWE-269). A stale administrator role left in user meta after a bulk role change can be restored to the attacker's own account because a request handler lacks a nonce or capability check. An authenticated attacker with Subscriber access or above can escalate privileges to Administrator if their account previously held that role.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
The Nexter Extension – Security, Performance, Code Snippets & Site Toolkit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.11 The vulnerability exists because the `/?reset-view` handler in `role_switcher_to_view_admin_as()` performs no nonce or capability check when the supplied username matches the authenticated caller, and because the plugin's only cleanup mechanism — the `profile_update` hook — does not fire when WordPress performs a bulk role change via `wp-admin/users.php?action=promote`, which calls `WP_User::set_role()` directly and leaves a stale `administrator` value in the `nxtext_view_admin_original_role` user meta. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or above to restore the stale stored Administrator role to their own account, effectively escalating their privileges to Administrator. Exploitation requires that the attacker's account previously held the Administrator role and used the View Admin Role Switcher feature before being demoted specifically through the bulk role-change control rather than the Edit User screen, as only the bulk path bypasses the `profile_update` hook that would otherwise have cleared the stored original role.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| posimyththemes | Nexter Extension – Security, Performance, Code Snippets & Site Toolkit | up to 4.7.11 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Nexter Extension – Security, Performance, Code Snippets & Site Toolkit Vendorposimyththemes Affected up to 4.7.11 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for Nexter Extension (Security, Performance, Code Snippets & Site Toolkit).
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Timeline
- 2026-10-16 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-111114
- 2026-10-16 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-16 Alias added: GHSA-73m7-x8f9-927m
- 2026-10-16 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ae86441d-5a95-45a7-869a-9e7872365a1f?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nexter-extension/tags/4.7.11/include/panel-settings/extensions/nexter-ext-view-admin-role.php#L287
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nexter-extension/tags/4.7.11/include/panel-settings/extensions/nexter-ext-view-admin-role.php#L265
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nexter-extension/tags/4.7.11/include/panel-settings/extensions/nexter-ext-view-admin-role.php#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nexter-extension/tags/4.7.11/include/panel-settings/extensions/nexter-ext-view-admin-role.php#L302
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3740891/nexter-extension/trunk/include/panel-settings/extensions/nexter-ext-view-admin-role.php
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Sources
- CVE-2026-111114 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-111114 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-73m7-x8f9-927m · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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